Suit Filed In Former Hopkins Doctor Recording Case

Suit Filed In Former Hopkins Doctor Recording Case

A Baltimore attorney says he has filed an anonymous class action suit on behalf of patients of a former Hopkins gynecologist. Police say the doctor secretly photographed and recorded patients during exams.

Attorney Jonathan Schochor says the suit was filed in Baltimore Circuit Court on behalf of an unnamed Baltimore patient of Dr. Nikita Levy.

According to the file, the patient is not being named because of the sensitive nature of the conduct. The suit says the patient is one of about 1,100 former patients of Levy.

Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, which operates a clinic where Levy worked, are named as defendants, the document reveals.

The suit also includes allegations of negligent hiring and supervision by the hospital and physician's group and seeks $70 million in damages.